Quote - Metro Apps are very limited in what they can do and many desktop apps cannot be moved to Metro without severe loss of functionality.
I seriously doubt that this will happen anytime soon. One reason why Windows has grown so big is compatibility with its predecessors. That will not change. I do not see any difference in desktop behaviour at all when I run them in Windows 8. Often I even forget that I run Windows 8.

Here's how I'm reading what MS's position is:

iStore envy. 

Step one, start removing the ability to run older programs on the desktop.  While you are doing that, institute your own app store that can run the future apps.  They don't have to be great in the beginning, they just need to get a foot in the door.  Take Eve online.  The producers over at CCP didn't make their Dust 514 game compatible with the Xbox because of MS's restrictions with their servers (Xbox's private cloud so to speak).  So it had to be PS3 only.

Once you do that, you can get rid of backwards compatibility.  Windows would be able to check to see if what you are trying to run is a legit MSstore app and if not, shuts it down.  You load up windows and it checks via the internet that you didn't try to mod it or jailbreak it. 

See right now, MS gets zero from poser sales.  Zero from Renderosity sales.  Zero from steam sales (hense steam looking to migrate to Linux).  Money is a prime motivator in life and MS wants more.  Locking down what you can run on your PC to being only things you can get via their store (the apps will get better, no doubt about that), is one way to assure you are going to get more money.  Windows is 80%-85% of the marketplace, once the iStore went up, the greed kicked in.

MS is just being methodical and slow about it.

wim, there are two kinds of apps for Win8.  Win 32 apps which, according to the person I linked to, are being depreciated (going byebye) and WinRT (real metro apps).  The latter for the moment is here to stay.

And here's the kicker, you have to go through the Windows store for them.  And here's a potential problem with certification.  Let's assume that as a part of being certified for the store, SM has to agree only Windows Certified addons (characters, clothes, etc) can be used on poser and for the sake of the arguement Daz has to agree to the same thing with DS. 

See where this is going?

We could up ending having a V4-Gene style fight... with our operating systems.

Okay, I found something that's a little troubling for the future.

That guy is a developer for the Serious Sam games.  He says that MS is trying to start implementing a certification process for windows so MS can lock down what you run.  Basically they take 20%-30% of the profits from their app store.  And the new full Metro apps can only be bought in the app store.  Then there is a certification process that has to be gone through. 

According to the developer, that cert process is nasty.  Sounds like at the least it'll require more effort from SM to get passed.  That might end up costing us more as those efforts will be passed on to us.

For poser users this begs the question: what sort of addons would have to be certified?  Would characters, clothing, pose packs have to be certified and app store only?  If so, say bye-bye renderostiy as is.  Another problem is MS can ban things that go above a certain age limit if they choose.  So if they see you can make poserporn...

Okay, then ignore what I said about BB's shaders and VSS: that version wouldn't work with them.  You can still export the obj file of a posed m4. 

Okay, for morphs, if you have the morphs++ over at daz, you should be fine for shape.  I'm not really sure about max importer.   If you want in poser realism, you could download VSS by bagginsbill (free, search forums for it) and then use his James or 240 shaders (search for those by him too). 

Thing is, I don't know about the max part so if it doesn't pull over the mats then those last things won't help.  It sounds like you can import into max via object format.  If that is the case, morph and pose M4 first and then export him as an .obj file.

Quote - Watch for Mikey and Goofy in the new cantina scenes....

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As long as Han shoots them first, I can live with that.

PS.  Don't forget the star wars lego tie in somewhere in that scene.

Win 8 was supposed to be the one interface for all new platforms: PCs, phones, tablets, and I guess even the Nextbox.  Unfortunately, to make it work with everything, they had to do some things like get rid of right click.

Win 8 is pretty much a 1 size fits all approach meaning it'll fit nothing perfectly as is.

I know this is a "small" nitpick compared to preformance, but there are a lot of big blocky icons right in the middle of the screen.  I tend to minimize the number of icons (can you get rid of those boxes) and keep them to the sides so I can look at my pretty backgrounds.

I don't really trust 1st party app stores (apple, ea, or ms) and the classic look should have been an option from the get go.  Sliding is fine on a 5 in smartphone, but not a 24' monitor.

That sad, everything I've read about general preformance so far seems to say there's not much difference between the two save for start up and shut down.

Yeah, I saw this on destructoid yesterday.  The vita has totally bombed for what it's worth.

EP7 doesn't need 250 million, it needs a plot and better characters.

Quote - I heard one of the reasons it took so long 83 to 99 to make star wars episode 1 1999.
George's divorce cost a lot of money.
So for a long time he didn't have the $$$ to make star wars episode 1 1999.

I dunno about that, if he just mentioned star wars and prequel, he'd probably get the investors he needed.

His public excuse is that he wanted film technology to advance more so he could tell the story he wanted.  I kind of believe that, he as did become obsessed with the technoligical aspect.  One of the reasons why he didn't direct empire was so he could stay behind and focus on the effects stuff.

Eric, I blame EA for the travesty that SW:TOR was.  I'm guessing they are the big reason bioware's founders exited the industry.

Welly, you could always cast new actors for the roles or you could pick up 100 years later.

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Anakin Solo dies in an extra-galatic alien invasion and Jacen turns to the dark side, killing Luke's wife in the process.  Do you go that route or say screw it and invalidate everything that happens?

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Frankly I'd prefer the reboot, but you might see a lot of angry fans because of it.

I'd also like to see other "universes" and not just focusing on the events in the one we've already seen.

Lucas is 68.  He waited too long between the trilogies for questionable results to be able to finish it himself. 

Quote - Disney could have saved a lot of money by hiring some creative people and creating their own franchise, if there are any creative people at disney.... aside from the financial engineers.

Let's see, they get the profits of all future installments.  All the merchandizing.  The video game division.  They get the profits from ILM. 

And of course you've got Starwarsland which probably will happen. You know at least ten million people will pony up the 100-120 it takes to get in there and a lot will keep going back.

Here's the thing about new IPs, they are expensive and there's no guarantee it'll be a hit with fans.  Why else do you see John Carter and Battleship being made?  It's because people with that kind of money hate to risk it on new ideas.